Fab four: Costa continued his flying start to life at Chelsea on Saturday's trip to Merseyside (Image: Laurence Griffiths)

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Didier Drogba is the yardstick by which every striker at Chelsea is judged. And finally they have a striker worthy of measuring up to him in Diego Costa.

Compared to the tens of millions the west Londoners wasted on the likes of Andrei Shevchenko, Adrian Mutu and Fernando Torres, the £32million Spaniard has not Costa lot.

Drogba is impressed by his new team-mate and admits he has eclipsed him with his flying start.

Drogba managed just one goal in his first five Chelsea games a decade ago and finished with a modest 16 in his debut campaign.

Costa has banged in four in his first three matches - including two in Saturday's wild 6-3 away win over Everton - to suggest a worthy successor to Blues legend Drogba has finally arrived at Stamford Bridge.

“Diego Costa has started very well,” said Drogba. “He looks special. He’s scoring goals and helping the team. He’s settled right in - and he’s started much better than I did!”

Costa, 25, played down his double, claiming he took most satisfaction from the team winning to maintain their perfect start.

With Blues goalkeeper and former Atletico Madrid team-mate Thibaut Courtois acting as his translator, the Brazil-born Spaniard said: “It’s nice to score goals, but for me, the most important thing is that the team wins.

“I’m happy that I can score and help the team. I just hope I can continue like this.”

What really impresses Azpilicueta is the work rate of his Spain team-mate and he operated like a second left-back at times, helping him out.

“I played against last season and I knew he is a good striker,” said the left-back. “We are happy to have him in our team.

“He’s a competitive guy, who always tries his best for the team. He’s a nightmare for defenders. He’s a worker. He saw the space to cover for me on the left wing and that is the most important thing to play as a team.”

Costa looks the complete package for Chelsea - quick, clever, clinical and aggressive. He is a street fighter, with an edge to him, and he could not resist taunting Seamus Coleman after the Irishman's own goal in retaliation for their spat minutes earlier, which earned him a booking.

Toffees keeper Tim Howard, who should have been dismissed in the first half for handling outside his area, charged over to confront Costa and he will need to control this devil inside.

It helps hugely playing in front of Cesc Fabregas and the former Arsenal star laid on Costa’s first after 35 seconds with a perfect defence-splitting pass for his fourth assist of the season.

Costa and Chelsea also benefited from some woeful defending and this was far from being Phil Jagielka and Sylvain Distin’s finest hour.

Branislav Ivanovic was offside in scoring the second inside three minutes, but Everton were ragged as Chelsea plundered four goals in the final quarter through Coleman’s OG, shots from Nemanja Matic and Ramires and, lastly, Costa’s second.

Chelsea were also shaky - Gary Cahill lost Kevin Mirallas for Everton’s first, while Ivanovic might have done better for Steven Naismith’s strike and Samuel Eto’o’s headed goal against his old club seven minutes into his debut.

Martinez defended Jagielka, insisting his skipper was not suffering a hangover from his role in England failing at the World Cup.

“I wouldn’t say so,” said the Everton boss. “We take responsibility as a team. I don’t think it’s about individuals.

“It would be wrong to highlight individuals. It’s more a feeling we need to get rid of.

“Defensively, we’re not a team to concede four goals in the opening two games. That’s more of a worry than the six we conceded here, up to a point.”